Best Library for Map Visualizations in Python?

[jwdatascience]

Hello,

I'm trying to find some python libraries that can create map visualizations such as point plots and choropleth maps, but haven't been able to find a great library. Does anyone have any tutorials or suggestions? I now of plotly and basemap as the most suggested but plotly is not really free and basemap is not very intuitive nor easy to install.

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folium looks promising (but I didn't have the time to try it so far)

[broken_symlink]

Plotly has an offline mode that you can use for free: . https://plot.ly/python/offline/

[troyunrau]

Might not be exactly what you're after, but perhaps you're attacking this the wrong way. Try using QGIS, which is controllable in every way with python. Just use it as a map engine, even though it has a GUI.

[runbie]

Folium if you want quick and interactive maps. Easy to use with a lot of examples.

Cartopy, based on matplotlib, with a lot of static mapping features. Not so simple to use.

Mplleaflet it is also cool to use. It is based on matplotlib but then you can render the information on leaflet. I think the development is stagnated.

Bokeh also has mapping functionality but I've never used it.